• spaghettiwestern@sh.itjust.works
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    27 days ago

    Can you imagine this technology being used for good instead of evil?

    Companies could instead lower prices for those who are struggling to pay for food. Unfortunately we are all so used to a reality where corporations are evil, bloodsucking parasites the possibility of one using technology to help people never even crosses our minds.

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      26 days ago

      Can you imagine this technology being used for good instead of evil?

      you don’t have to imagine it – it’s already a reality for a majority of the world’s population that does ai and you can see all the non-evil effects it’s having on society if you switch away from american controlled social media.

      you’re already on lemmy so you’re part of the way there – just start browsing the instances that the centrists and liberals are telling you to stay away from because it’s filled w tankies.

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        26 days ago

        My comment was plainly about corporations and pricing.

        you’re already on lemmy so you’re part of the way there – just start browsing the instances that the centrists and liberals are telling you to stay away from because it’s filled w tankies.

        I’ve been the rest of the way there and you and your tankie Lemmy instances can shove it.

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          26 days ago

          I’ve been the rest of the way there and you and your tankie Lemmy instances can shove it.

          you’re so close and yet so far lol

          at least lemmy will be here once you decide to stop doomscrolling and blaming AI for what billionaires are making it do.

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              26 days ago

              The fact that you’re talking about surveillance pricing specifically and they’re talking about AI in general doesn’t mean you’re not 100% wrong about everything. Nobody who uses “Tankie” as a perjorative is on the right side of anything.

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                  22 days ago

                  you should write down your thoughts on why all this ai fuckery is happening around you, using a more permanent medium.

                  as @DudleyMason@lemmy.ml pointed out, history tends to be unkind to people who think like you – largely because historians have to use the breadcrumbs that survived time to conjecture at why people like you believe what you do. the result is – invariably – a wildly inaccurate, two-dimensional popular understanding of what regressive people from the past were actually like as human beings.

                  take anti-abolitionists, for example: their position was the overwhelming popular sentiment for centuries as yours is today, and the tankies of that time were derided for wanting to end slavery. today, the popular consensus is that all anti-abolitionists were simply racist dumb fucks, but that’s far from the truth – there were real reasons slavery persisted, and good, honest people supported it.

                  if people in the future had access to your thoughts the way tankies have access to lenin’s and marx’s thoughts, it could paint a fuller picture of why this well-documented system of oppression we have today should continue to exist – just as anti-abolitionists believed slavery should continue to exist.